June 22, 2011

New Americans Graduate from BHS [228]

‎6/17/11: Over 200 students graduated from Burlington High School Friday morning. For more than 60 of those graduates, English is not their native language. Yessi Gar-Elnabi held a graduation party at King Street Center earlier in the week to celebrate this accomplishment with some of his fellow seniors, teachers and principal.

June 15, 2011

Fort Ticonderoga [227]

6/13/11: Eva tags along with Linda Peake's 3rd grade class from Shoreham Elementary School as they celebrate the end of the school year with a trip across the lake to historic Fort Ticonderoga, also known as "America's Fort."

During the Revolutionary War, Vermont's Green Mountain Boys captured Fort Ti and won "America's First Victory."

Thousands of school children visit the 18th century fort every year to watch history come alive.